Multi3Generation: Workshop on Multilingual, Multimodal and Multitask Language Generation Tampere, Finland, June 15, 2023

Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=multi3generation
Submission deadline	May 5, 2023

 

Workshop on

Multilingual, Multimodal and Multitask Language Generation

 

CA18231- Multi3Generation

 Held in conjunction with the 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2023)

 

June 15th, 2023 - Tampere, Finland

SUMMARY

Language generation (LG) is a crucial technology for human-machine communication. A good performance of language generation tasks implies (1) that machines are equipped with world knowledge that can require multimodal processing and reasoning (e.g. textual, visual and auditory inputs, or sensory data streams), and (2) the study of strong, novel machine learning (ML) methods (e.g. structured prediction, generative models), since virtually all state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) models are learned from data. Moreover, human languages can differ widely in their surface realization (i.e. scripts) as well as their internal structure (i.e. grammar), which suggests that multilinguality is a central goal if machines are to perform seamless language generation. Language generation technologies would greatly benefit both public and private services offered to EU citizens in a multilingual Europe, and have strong economic and societal impacts.

1. IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission deadline: 5 May 2023
• Acceptance Notification Date: 20 May 2023
• Camera-ready copies: 4 June 2023
• Workshop: 15 June 2023

2. OVERVIEW

As progress in artificial intelligence (AI) evolves, there has been public debate as to whether machine learning (ML) and the new trends in neural network (NN) techniques accomplish the goal of transforming current computational systems into technology where communication between humans and machines is seamlessly intelligible. While the technology enthusiasts seized this unique opportunity, reasonable skeptics do not share the rise of AI with the same enthusiasm and ask difficult questions: (i) Are there any major scientific breakthroughs brought by AI? (ii) Are people (AI users and technologists) learning anything from AI as for the process of the human brain in identifying, analyzing and generating human natural language? Although the reactions from different research actors and technological fields are different and often controversial, there is no doubt that AI has contributed to the community and proved to be useful in tasks, such as machine translation, summarization, among others. Rather than discussing on the arguable contribution of AI to science, and its utility to society, this workshop is initiated in the framework of Multi3Generation COST Action – European network for Multilingual, Multimodal and Multitask Language Generation (CA18231) and would put together researchers and companies interested in different aspects of language generation from multiple perspectives, as language generation is currently one of the cornerstones of natural language processing and AI. Since the workshop is co-located within EAMT, we prioritize work on the generation of multilingual texts and (machine) translation, such as the development of high quality linguistic resources, multimodal novelties, different tasks in multiple languages, and proposals on improving the overall field of translation.

3. LIST OF TOPICS

In the 1st edition of the Multi3Generation workshop, we aim to bring to the forefront the challenges involved in Language Generation from a multidimensional perspective. We hope that the workshop will provide a common forum to consolidate the multidisciplinary efforts and foster discussions to identify the wide-ranging issues related to the language generation task and its derived applications. To this regard, we encourage the submission of high-quality and original submissions covering the following topics:

- Multimodal language generation; Multilingual language generation; Multitask language generation; Creative language generation; Paraphrase generation; Translation of expressions, multiwords and phrasal units; Linguistic resources such as datasets of paraphrases; Association of expressions with identical or similar meaning; Effective ways to add value to the MT technology

- Applications of language generation: machine translation, paraphrasing, text rewriting, cross-analysis of language varieties, summarisation, automatic feedback generation, text simplification, language teaching, applications of language generation in industry and society.

- ChatGPT: opportunities, challenges, and threats

- Large language models and their generative power

The Multi3Generation workshop will be free of charge for any participant. Participants from some specific countries (ITC Countries) can apply for a grant to support travel and accommodation:

https://www.cost.eu/uploads/2018/11/Inclusiveness-Target-Countries-Conference-Grants-userguide-V2-003-Oct-2018-1.pdf

Additionally, Mult3Generation will provide a number of grants to partially or fully cover the travel and accommodation expenses of the participants with accepted papers.

5. SUBMISSION

Submissions should follow the EAMT 2023 guidelines and style templates (PDF, LaTeX, Word). It will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published online as proceedings included in the ACL Anthology and will be presented at the conference orally or via poster. Please find the templates in the following link under the section “Templates for Papers”: https://events.tuni.fi/eamt23/second-call-for-papers/

In addition, a selection of accepted papers will be proposed to be extended to be published at ORE (indexed in Scopus and DBLP) as long as they don't conflict with previous publication rights.

Papers should be submitted by EasyChair platform: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=multi3generation

6. REVIEWS

Submission will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. The accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published at ORE (indexed in Scopus and DBLP) as long as they don't conflict with previous publication rights.

7. WORKSHOP FORMAT

Participants of accepted papers will be given 15 minutes for oral presentations.

8. INVITED SPEAKER

The speaker will be announced soon.

9. ORGANIZERS

Anabela Barreiro (INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal)

Max Silberztein (University of Franche-Comté, France)

Elena Lloret (University of Alicante, Spain)

10. WEB AND DISSEMINATION CHAIR

Marcin Paprzycki (Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

11. PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chair: Max Silberztein (Université de Franche-Comté, France)

Mirela Alhasani (EPOKA University, Albania)

Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Mehul Bhatt (Örebro University, Sweden)

Anabela Barreiro (INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal)

Iacer Calixto (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands)

José Camargo (Unbabel, Portugal)

Liviu Dinu (University of Bucharest, Romania)

Aykut Erdem (Koç University, Turkey)

Maria Ganzha (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)

Albert Gatt (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands)

Fabio Kepler (Unbabel, Portugal)

Elena Lloret (University of Alicante, Spain)

Helena Moniz (University of Lisboa and INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal)

Marcin Paprzycki (Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

Inguna Skadina (University of Latvia, Latvia)

Irene Russo (ILC CNR, Italy)

Oleksii Turuta (NURE, Ukraine)

12. CONTACTS

For general inquiries regarding the workshop, reach the organizers at: multi3generation@gmail.com